Gym fan, 37, suffered cardiac arrest after a workout and 'died' for seven minutes... as numbers of 'super-fit' slim young heart attack victims surge

[Mij]

Mr Bilson the underwent emergency surgery where he had a stent fitted.

It comes as data has shown a concerning rise in cardiovascular conditions including heart attacks, coronary heart disease and strokes among younger, fit and active adults.

A number of factors are thought to be at play including drug use, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and bad diets.

But the timing strongly implies the Covid pandemic has played a role.

The virus itself causes widespread inflammation in the body that can damage the heart or lead to blood clots.
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[Mij]

I've personally read several related stores in the past few months.

 

[Ash]

In the early stages of LC life when I was still trying to keep up, many young and middle aged people were dying of less common stuff like blood clots and heart stuff. That didn’t stop.

Also wtf, trying to blame sedentary lifestyles, bad diets and the O word. Even on an article about young ‘fit’ ‘gym lovers’ getting heart attacks.

Still trying to re-centre onto people with disapproved of lifestyles and body sizes. All outrage that thin gym bunnies are having heat attacks that they don’t deserve because they’re so ‘fit’. Well maybe these ‘fit’ people are heavy breathing COVID too deep into their lungs in close proximity to all the other gym goers force fully exhaling COVID into their faces on account of all the heavy breathing and exertion going on and this is causing more of them to sustain heart damage. Maybe not getting repeatedly infected with virus causing premature aging and death is actually an in important factor in staying well.

It may not be COVID of course could be something chosen enhancing drugs or thinness drugs. But if it’s not Covid and immune system dying leaving the door open pathogens in it’s wake, it’s probably air pollution or micro plastics or water pollution or any number of other pollutants and we’re all sick now. Same for cancer.

 

[rvallee]

including drug use, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and bad diets

Obviously, those things did not exist before 5 years ago. Nope. All brand new post-2020 problems. Not like the 80s and 90s, where everyone had healthy habits and ate natural well-balanced diets. It's actually funny that they don't mention smoking because it is pretty much on the way to disappear, hence the lack of mention, whereas if you go back just 2 decades ago it was everywhere.

They truly don't seem to get the harm to the credibility of expertise they are causing here. As if they can just talk obviously nonsense like this and most people, in a time of crisis of trust in authority no less, will just go on trusting them. It's like they see it in a similar way as old aristocracies, that people should just listen to them no matter how much bullshit they spew out loud. Incredible. Humans are so damn weird.

 

[bobbler]

Mr Bilson the underwent emergency surgery where he had a stent fitted.

It comes as data has shown a concerning rise in cardiovascular conditions including heart attacks, coronary heart disease and strokes among younger, fit and active adults.

A number of factors are thought to be at play including drug use, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and bad diets.

But the timing strongly implies the Covid pandemic has played a role.

The virus itself causes widespread inflammation in the body that can damage the heart or lead to blood clots.
LINK

That reliance on assuming on those factors is starting to look a bit weak when you’ve a generation who have enough people who clearly can say it’s not those isn’t it?

not to say eating badly or not exercising is good for you but I’ve felt uneasy for a while about these things moving from being advice everyone knows into getting embedded as if it is scientific anything into actual health conditions and suggesting to doctors don’t look for another cause assume it’s behavioural then listing all sorts of things at best they have correlations based on lots of people not doing them happening to also get x illness. At worst even if someone can say they don’t even do one to a minimum it’s such a belief system they assume they are fibbing. And then don’t stop to think ‘hang on I personally do more of these supposed bad things worse than this person, so how sensibly is this the cause?’